Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Gossip

1.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Scott, Paul

2.

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

3.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Smith, Logan Pearsall

4.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Levi, Primo

5.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Walters, Barbara

6.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Steele, Sir Richard

7.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

Mencken, H. L.

8.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

9.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.

Dyke, Henry Van

10.

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself,'Why should I tell it?'

Johann K. Lavater

11.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers

12.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Hugo, Victor

14.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.

Stuart, Edwin H.

16.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

John Tudor

17.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Kirk, Lisa

18.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Crane, George W.

19.

At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

20.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

21.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Proverb, Jewish

22.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

23.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

Bible

24.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

Mcginley, Phyllis

25.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

26.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

27.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Shriner, Herb

28.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

29.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Picabia, Francis

30.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Bible

31.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Mcginley, Phyllis

34.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Smith, Liz

35.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

Barker, Myrtle

37.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Wallis Hoch

39.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Drew, Elizabeth

41.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

West, Rebecca

42.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

43.

A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.

Proverb, American

44.

Sight before hearsay.

Proverb, Danish

45.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Aleichem, Sholom

46.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Horace

47.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Jong, Erica

49.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Jonathan Haidt

50.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elder